Chinese director Gao Qunshu takes on the subgenre of the contemporary western with this opus, starring Duan Yihong and Francis Ng and set in the arid wastelands of the Gobi Desert. Yihong plays Zhang Ning, a hitman-cum-underground boxer fleeing through the Gobi with his pregnant girlfriend, Sun Jing (Charlie Yeung. Several nemeses are hot on their trail, including a pair of ruthless killers (Ng, Yu Nan) and a cadre of lawmen headed by Detective Leopard (Duan Yihong). Early on, the officers manage to capture Zhang and Sun and take them to their camp, but the assassins soon appear as well, which forces Zhang to assume a heroic role in the presence of his captors, and ignites a series of surprising and explosive reversals.